"May" [Per Drud Nielsen]
Title
"May" [Per Drud Nielsen]
Part of: "A Christina Rossetti Song Book"
Creator
Drud Nielson, Per; music (Danish, born 1950)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Date
2012 [publication] [copyright]
Publisher
Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen
Subject
genre: song|art song (lied)|song cycle
chorus: SATB chorus
instrumentation: a cappella
origin: Denmark
male composer
Language
English
Description
Rossetti poem(s): "May" ("I cannot tell you how it was")
Place in the larger work: The first song of five in the song cycle called "A Christina Rossetti Song Book," which includes 1. "May"; 2. "A Birthday"; 3. "Mirage"; 4. "If all were rain"; 5. "When I Am Dead, My Dearest."
Notes: A note from the composer: "Had Christina Rossetti lived 40 years earlier and not written in English but in German, I am convinced that the many Lied-composers in the first half of the 19th century would have gathered around her. And in many ways I have set her poems to music in the spirit of the Lied tradition: I have made use of simple, modified strophic forms. And if you hear a loan from a well-known Schumann-Lied in one of my Rossetti-songs, you are not mistaken."
Format
Format 1: musical score
Source
Other data reference(s): "A Christina Rossetti Song Book (2012)." Wise Music Classical, https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/48535/. Accessed 1 March 2020.
Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "PER DRUD NIELSEN: A CHRISTINA ROSETTI SONG BOOK: SATB." musicroom, https://www.musicroom.com/product/wh31717/per-drud-nielsen-a-christina-rosetti-song-book-satb.aspx. Accessed 1 March 2020.
Identifier
Record: CRM-mayicannottell-drudnielson
Rights
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Files
Collection
Citation
Drud Nielson, Per; music (Danish, born 1950) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"May" [Per Drud Nielsen],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 21, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/1979.
Item Relations
| This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: "A Birthday" [Per Drud Nielson] |
| This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: Mirage [Per Drud Nielson] |
| This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: "If all were rain" [Per Drud Nielson] |
| This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: "When I Am Dead, My Dearest" [Per Drud Nielson] |